Version 25.9 of sci-mathematics/gimps is available for download at the URL above. Numerous bugfixes and speedups WRT to the latest version. The x86 version is still linked to libcurl.so.3 so we still need the binary patch. Tested by renaming the current ebuild and it seems to work fine. It's also a good candidate for stable in 30 days.
Please don't CC maintainers/herds yourself. Leave that to the bug-wranglers.
Thanks for notifying us about the new version. It has now been added to CVS and should be available in the Portage tree shortly.